Hospital Compare

The goal of Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) is to identify a robust set of standardized and easy-to-understand hospital quality measures. An important element of the collaboration, Hospital Compare, is a website/web-tool developed to publicly report credible and user-friendly information about the quality of care delivered in the nation's hospitals. HQA facilitates continuous improvement in patient care through:

Implementing measures that portray the quality, cost and value of hospital care;

Developing and using measure reporting in the nation’s hospitals; and

Sharing useful hospital performance information with the public.

ANA is an HQA Principal and actively participates in a number of HQA subgroups focused on the inclusion of additional measures into Hospital Compare, including the nurse-sensitive measures; revision of the Hospital Compare display; and, membership expansion.

HQA is a public-private collaboration committed to making meaningful, relevant, and easily understood information about hospital performance accessible to the public and to informing and encouraging efforts to improve quality. ANA is an HQA Principal. We participate in HQA subgroups focused on improving Hospital Compare by including nurse-sensitive measures; revising the Hospital Compare display, and expanding membership.